Brazilian Guitar Quartet
Winner of the 2011 Latin Grammy Award in the “best classical album”
category, the Brazilian Guitar Quartet has established itself as one of
world’s leading guitar ensembles. Praised by the Washington Post for its
“seductive beauty” and “virtuosic gusto,” the group’s unique
combination, of regular six-string and extended-range, eight-string
guitars, allows for the exploration of an original and unusual
repertoire. In their more than ten years of activity, the BGQ has
performed over 250 concerts in the Americas, Europe and Asia, often
receiving ecstatic audience responses, garnering rave reviews, and
meeting sold-out halls.
Highlights of the BGQ’s past seasons include performances at the 92
Street ‘Y’ and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Spivey Hall in
Atlanta, Vancouver Playhouse, Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Dumbarton
Concerts and National Gallery in Washington, D.C., Chamber Music
Albuquerque, Beethovensaal in Hanover, Wortham Theather in Houston and
Libby Gardner Hall in Salt Lake City, as well as at the Hong Kong Arts
Festival, Felicja Blumental Festival in Tel Aviv, Colorado Music
Festival, Ravinia Festival, Carmel Bach Festival and some of the major
guitar festivals in the U.S., Brazil, Australia, Denmark, Scotland,
Mexico, Portugal and Germany.
In 2004, the Brazilian Guitar Quartet were “headliners” at the
inaugural World Guitar Congress in Baltimore where, together with the
Baltimore Symphony, they gave the world premiere of a
specially-commissioned concerto by Brazil’s 2001 “Composer of the Year,”
Ronaldo Miranda. In 2009, the Quartet performed the Suite Iberia by
Isaac Albéniz in a Brazilian tour that included the major capitals of
that country, sponsored by Instituto Cervantes in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the composer’s death.
The BGQ’s discography includes five CDs for Delos. Three of them are
devoted to Brazilian Music: Essência do Brasil (1999), Encantamento
(2001) and the quartet’s latest release, the Latin Grammy winner
Brazilian Guitar Quartet plays Villa-Lobos (2011). The other two
recordings present, in their entirety, two great works of Western
classical music, Bach’s Four Orchestral Suites (2000) and Albéniz’s
Suite Iberia (2006).
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